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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 3RD MARCH, 1894.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 72.
The following Minutes are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 3rd March, 1894.
G. T. M. OBRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 4.
Minutes of the proceedings of the SANITARY BOARD, at a meeting held on Thursday, the 15th day of February, 1894.
PRESENT:
The Registrar General, (The Honourable JAMES HALDANE STEWART LOCKHART), President.
The Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS HENRY MAY, Esquire), Vice-President.
The Colonial Surgeon, (Dr. PHILIP BERNARD CHENERY AYRES, C.M.G.),
NATHANIEL JOSEPH EDE, Esquire.
JOHN DAVID HUMPHREYS, Esquire.
JOHN JOSEPH FRANCIS, Esquire, Q.C.
LAU WAI CHUN, Esquire.
ABSENT:
The Acting Director of Public Works, (WILLIAM CHATHAM, Esquire).
Dr. JAMES CANTLIE.
The Honourable Dr. Ho KAL
Minutes.-The minutes of a meeting held on the 1st day of February, 1894, were read and confirmed. The Bucket System.-Mr. EDE moved,-
That the suggestion numbered 2 in the Acting Superintendent's Report upon the Bucket System (dated 13th January, 1894), concerning the compulsory use throughout the city of buckets of a special pattern remain in abeyance for the present; and that the Superintendent endeavour to obtain some superior pattern or patterns of bucket and that he submit to the Board some scheme for gradually introducing and bringing it into general
use.
Mr. HUMPHREYS seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Drainage Pipes.-The consideration of Mr. HUMPHREYS' motion that drainage bye-laws Nos. 29 and 30 be amended as follows was resumed.
No. 29. Down-pipes, conveying rain-water from roofs, shall be constructed of cast or welded wrought-iron, or of
well glazed stone-ware pipes, or of pipes constructed of such material and pattern as may be approved by the Board, and when the down-pipe discharges into the house-drain it shall be completely disconnected therefrom, as described in bye-law No. 31, and fitted with a bend, shoe or pedestal pipe. Wherever practic- able, the rain-water down-pipes on the street side of buildings, shall be carried under the footpath and discharge into the side channel.
NOTE.-It is most important that such pipes should be completely disconnected from the sewers so that they cannot by any possibility serve as conduits for conducting sewer air up and into the dwelling.
No. 30. Waste-pipes from baths, sinks and other similar appliances, on the upper floors of buildings shall be of cast-iron sochetted pipes or wrought-iron welded-pipes with screwed joints coated with bituminous composition, or in the case of wrought-iron, galvanised; or of well glazed stone-ware socketted pipes, or of pipes of these or of other materials and of other pattern approved by the Board, securely fixed outside the wall, and pro- vided, at each point of connection, with a suitable head, and at their lower extremity with a bend, shoe or pedestal pipe. All joints of stone-ware pipes to be made in the manner provided for in bye-law 5.
NOTE.-Zinc, tin-plate, rivetted or lap-jointed sheet-iron will not be approved.
Mr. FRANCIS suggested that the following interpolations be made in the proposed amended bye-law No. 29, viz., the words " as may be equally efficient" after the words "material and pattern" and the words "from time to time" after the words
as may be."
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The motion as amended was moved by Mr. HUMPHREYS and seconded by Mr. FRANCIS.
A discussion ensued.
The Board then divided.
Ayes.
Mr. HUMPHREYS. Mr. FRANCIS.
Noes.
Captain Superintendent of Police.
Mr. LAU Wai Chun.
Colonial Surgeon.
Mr. EDE.
The President did not vote.
Motion lost.